St Uny CofE Academy
General Information
- Address: Polmennor Drive, Carbis Bay, St Ives, TR26 2SQ – View on map
- Phone: 01736794180
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Richard Hoskins
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 30 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 15 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 38
- % eligible for free school meals: 17.6%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (similar to the Cornwall average)
- English as an additional language: 2% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.1% a year (Cornwall 17%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Cornwall: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Cornwall, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 33% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 27 percentage points below the Cornwall average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 52% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 53% · Writing 50% · Maths 47% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 40%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 97
- Based on: 30 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 194th of 209 junior and primary schools in the area
- =194Kehelland Village School33%
- =194St Mary's CofE School, Truro33%
- =194St Uny CofE Academy33%
- #198Whitstone Primary School31%
- #199Foxhole Learning Academy30%
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128th of 166 primary schools in Cornwall for Ofsted rating
- #126St Teath Community Primary SchoolGood
- #127St Tudy CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #128St Uny CofE AcademyGood
- #129St Wenn SchoolGood
- #130St Winnow CofE SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,533 (2024-25)
207th of 219 primary schools in Cornwall for spending per pupil
- #205Mount Hawke Academy£5,575
- #206Carclaze Community Primary School£5,565
- #207St Uny CofE Academy£5,533
- #208Pennoweth Primary School£5,521
- #209St Teath Community Primary School£5,504
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